To-day I drew Portia and Shylock on my slate, and forgot to finish my sum; therefore I am disgraced!" I seized the happy moment and offered myself to the girls as a governess.

Mopsie stopped on the road and hugged me in delight.

Jane squeezed my hand and was silent during the rest of the walk, except when she said, "Mother will never consent.

I am too proud, and she wants me to be humbled.

She thinks it is good for me to go to the village school." That night, however, I laid my plan before Mrs.Hollingford, and, after some trouble, I attained my point.
We chose for our school-room an unoccupied chamber at the end of a long passage upstairs.